Proverbs 22:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

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  • Deut 19:14 : 14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Job 24:2 : 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

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  • 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:

  • 14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

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    26 Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • 17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • 29 Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

  • 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

  • 15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

  • Prov 5:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7 Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

    8 Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

    9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

    10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

  • 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

  • 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Prov 4:25-27
    3 verses
    71%

    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

    26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

    27 Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

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    27 Prepare your work outside, and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterward build your house.

    28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

  • 22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • 8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:

  • 17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • 6 Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

  • 15 Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • 7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

  • 30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • 7 And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • 8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • 13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

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    27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the LORD.

    28 Therefore we said that it shall be, when they should say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices, but it is a witness between us and you.

  • 20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

  • 18 What wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden it:

  • 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house if any man falls from it.

  • 22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

  • 28 You shall not revile the gods nor curse the ruler of your people.

  • 23 Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

  • 6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • 2 I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard to the oath of God.

  • 15 Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • Job 22:8-9
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    8 But as for the mighty man, he possessed the land; and the honorable man lived in it.

    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • 18 But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

  • Deut 8:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11 Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

    12 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt therein;

  • 3 Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

  • 17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

  • 21 An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.